Finding your place in the world
Tai Snaith takes a look at two pairs of artists who have formed intergenerational, informal mentorships, both sharing the love of humour.
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Tai Snaith takes a look at two pairs of artists who have formed intergenerational, informal mentorships, both sharing the love of humour.
Sam Field’s paintings are like colonialist postcards from a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape. His terrains are assembled by combining national logos and images – from vintage Channel Nine logos and football teams, to Blundstone boots and lyrebirds.
In her solo show Tertium Quid (loosely translated from Latin as ‘the third unknown’) O’Neil presented four large collages assembled from found photographic images.
Art Guide Australia’s Louise Martin-Chew attended the 2018 NAVA Future/Forward forum in Canberra. She reports on efforts to get art back on the political agenda.
Mona founder David Walsh AO has announced a collaboration between the Melbourne-based Hotham Street Ladies and Pop Architecture as the winner of the 2018 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects.
“This was really a period in which art absolutely changed. It was at this time when art didn’t have to be a painting or a sculpture anymore, it could be a movement or a performance or an action or a book.”
In many of Georgina Cue’s photographs, the artist lies in a staged setting. She is surrounded by makeshift objects and structures, which are overloaded with a series of diverging allusions.
“I wanted the cities to become complicated, towering machines floating in toxic soupy skies.”
Ganambarr, who is from the remote community of Gangan in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, took out the top prize with a large etching on aluminium titled Buyku.
Ashley Yihsin Chang lists her aims for the exhibition as threefold: to promote an opportunity for the local artists to engage with Taiwanese culture, to promote cross cultural dialogue for longer term benefits, and to provide a model for a community project with a global outlook.
In this first series of Five on Five we’re asking five painters to speak about a painting that has influenced, inspired or resonated with them. In this episode Prudence Flint reflects on Virgin and Child (1455-60) by Dieric Bouts.
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne has appointed Adam Harding as its new director. Community engagement and artists having a voice are two CCP strengths Harding is keen to continue.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.
Whether beloved pets or superstitious omens, animals have always existed in art. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia’s latest exhibition is paying tribute to two of the most beloved animal figures: cats and dogs.
In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.
